Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), the annual, international conference ‘E-Learn’ takes place at varying locations in the US, Europe and Canada. The event regularly attracts over 1000 participants from all over the world. … Read more

From the introduction: “Social media complicate the very nature of public life. In this article, we consider how technology reconfigures publicness, blurs ‘audiences’ and publics, and alters what it means to engage in public life. The nature of publicness online … Read more

Distance Education is a peer-reviewed journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Inc. It publishes research and scholarly material in the fields of open, distance and flexible education. The current special issue comprises 12 articles by leading … Read more

In April 2012, Pew Internet Research  published the results of a study on reading habits. The Reading Habits Survey (PDF, 68 pages) obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,986 people ages 16 and older living in the … Read more

Anderson, T. & Shattuck, J. (2012). Design-based research: A decade of progress in education research? Educational Researcher, 41 (1), 16-25. Available at SAGE online. The article summarizes the history of design based research, compares the DBR approach to action research … Read more

This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed in practical results and applications? … Read more

A survey by Pew Internet states that 64% of online adults in the US use social networking sites – that amounts to half the full adult population. Among internet users, social networking sites are most popular with young adults under … Read more

The annual Horizon Project, a joint initiative by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative inquiry. Since the launch of the Horizon Project in March 2002, each … Read more